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Visual Arts The visual arts encompass areas such as painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, photography, printmaking, many design disciplines, as well the decorative arts like textile art and metalwork.

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Some works by the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

Death of Orpheus


Melencolia I


St. Jerome dans sa cellule


Birth of the Virgin (from the Life of the Virgin series)


Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse


My favourite: Knight, Death and Devil


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Default Re: Albrecht Dürer

A genius of his time indeed. Also, notice his great knowledge of anatomy, this in a time when there weren't anatomy manuals and painting had to be done "by memory".
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Default Re: Albrecht Dürer

very true. particularly the horses. the human anatomy is not so well defined, although the human faces are very expressive.
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As for anatomy:

Praying hands
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I love Durer's work.
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